ShoeGirl Discount!

I'm so super excited to share this with you guys! DNAfootwear.com is offering all my friends- thats YOU- 10% off any order of $50 or more, with the exclusion of Ugg(ly), but that's ok because you guys wouldn't insult me by using my discount on them anyway, right?? ;)

I kid, I kid. But not really.

ANYWAY- check out the site. They carry tons of brands including a few of my favorites (snicker snicker) like Harajuku Lovers and Betsey Johnson.

Here are a few of my favorite picks!

L.A.M.B. Zan platform- I own and LOVE this shoe.

My Vivienne Westwood-esque Harajuku Lovers Arlanda pump

And the Betsey Johnson Alexandra peep toe that I posted about a couple of weeks ago

And of course, tons of great shoes that I didn't design ;)

Let me know what you guys get! All you have to do is enter code SHOEGIRL10 when you check out!!

xoxo

it was all a blur

To my impossibly beautiful and massively encouraging 2.5 readers,

My spring break has started, and I am writing to you from home, where the deer and the antelope play my grandma feeds me twelve meals a day and we pay for high-speed internet but get the equivalent of dial-up. As such, posting will be awfully slow this week. For consolation, I offer you this outfit, the hopes that you will formspring me, and the shameless plea for warm-weather shoe suggestions, from someone who hates the way her feet look and needs arch support.

And a little link roundup:

• A wishlist/needlist of investment pieces at Broke & Beautiful. I think I need to make my own needlist, as my wardrobe is coming of age at the same pace as I am.
• A short collection of unconventional ideas from The Art of Non-Conformity. The one that is eating and feeding my soul: "Once you fully understand what you want, it's not usually that difficult to get it."
• Gary Vaynerchuk on TED, on doing what you love. Golden: "I lost a shitload of money when I started doing what I loved. What you do is you position yourself to succeed."
• "Yesterday" by Nizlopi, by recommendation of total cutie Andy Mientus, of the Spring Awakening cast, and who has impeccable musical taste
• clothed much, a personal style blog written by a really cute Mormon girl (Click click click! Your or at least my stereotypes are totally unfounded!)
• And THIS. Project! Pretty Lingerie Drawer. So pretty much my whole life is dedicated to achieving an aesthetically pleasing, functional underwear collection... not that you guys didn't know that.

Love!,

Your friendly neighborhood Spider-Sam

Black jacket: gift. Blue fake pashmina: gift. Ring: Forever21. Floral shorts: mother's. Tights: generic. Plaid shoes: Keds.

this is boring (this is a self-fulfilling prophecy)

So I wore this over two weeks ago...

I guess I should mention that I've been trying out the idea of a (sort of) capsule wardrobe.

My closet at school is too packed, and for little reason, so I edited my closet down to my (colder weather) basics: scarves, cotton shirts, pullover sweaters, cardigans, skinny jeans, and tiny skirts. That might sound like a lot, but it's made getting dressed so much easier. I guess lack of options makes choosing simple. I also tried to restrict myself to a color palette (basics: black, gray, white/off-white; accents: darker shades of pink, purple, green/blue), which has worked out well, too.

But now it's really spring and I need to rework my wardrobe again for the warmer weather. Always a work in progress.

UC Berkeley v-neck sweater: hand-me-down. Blue fake pashmina: gift. Skinny jeans: Forever21. Socks: macy's. Sneakers: Harajuku Lovers.

Things I Love: February 2010

I TOTALLY HAD A NIGGLING FEELING THAT SOMETHING WAS WRONG! I missed a Things I Love post for February, so here it is with my profuse apologies to the Universe for forgetting to make my gratitude public. Things that made me want to sing! in February:

• my trench coat (!) because my mother and grandmother lovingly shortened it by hand for me, and because February was full of rain

• that my Cognitive Science class has been moved to the Hearst Mining Building Circle Thing, because it does look like Platform 9 3/4, just as Kim said, and it's a lot closer to the class I have right before it
• phone calls from Lincoln
• my new (old?) estate sale rings (I love you, San Francisco & Craigslist)!

• Tony giving an HKN announcement in my CS3 class, because familiar faces are always, always welcome
• the math discussion when someone said "But that's not what the book says," regarding the definition of limits, and my GSI jokingly replying in his French accent, "So I'm teaching you crap?" (Turns out the conventional definition of a limit is different in France. Go figure.)
• that Stephanie asked if I want to be her lab partner because it is so flattering, regardless of the fact that she is not a boy, and coding a program to convert numbers to English words is definitely not prom or a date
• being experimented on in the phonology lab and being compensated my $10
• being told by the undergrad major adviser that "We don't get a lot of A+s in 110," being told I should consider doing an honors thesis, and being told that my life is on track
• being declared as a linguistics major and having my photo on the undergrad wall
• my Skullcandy headphones

• Radical Self-Love (Gala Darling is ♥)
• Matt letting me talk about my life problems at him
• Tom (for the smiley face next to my "Desyllabification (-mentarianism)") & Elisabeth (for "Okay, let me give you two sentences to analyze... 'Just give me the answer,' and 'Let's move on,'" which resulted in us staring blankly at her for at least two minutes until she asked what was wrong, and we asked what the sentences were, and she said "'Just give me the answer' and 'Let's move on,'" and we said "But what's the question?") & Angela (for bringing our 8 AM lab donut holes) & Henri (for the LOL next to my drawing of a cat on my math quiz, and talking about mathematical proofs in terms of what you have and what you need to do to reach your dreams and desires, and the whole French accent thing)
• my mother, and going home for a late-night curry chicken/tomato soup/Ovaltine run
• my mother for cleaning the mildew out of my room
• Oranges! Nature is amazing and pre-packages snacks for us.
• being woken up by my grandmother and mother standing over my bed yelling "HAPPY NEW YEAR!" in Cantonese
• the video of a little boy seeing lobsters for the first time
• Will for this: "There were 9 A+'s last semester. This is an unusually large number. But you ranked second in the class, and this is counting the grad students."
• my roommate, on the Olympics: "Wow, there are a lot of Canadians in the audience"
• Johnny Weir

Above, Johnny Weir & Lady Gaga. I don't understand how this picture even exists. The fierceness scale has just exploded.

• men's figure skating in general (men with tight Spandex-clad butts!)
• this gawker comment re: Johnny Weir not medaling:

"Whatever, that gold medal would have just dulled his natural sparkle."

• Spencer + Matt + Denny + Cafe Strada
• going out feeling totally full of grubby glow
• hugsies with Lee!
• walking around campus at night and feeling like I'm in Disneyland
• running into David before class (or perhaps I should say him running up to me, which amused me to no end)
• the woman who commented on my saddle shoes before math lecture started, which resulted in a conversation about retro clothing and starched shirts and included my use of the phrase "distinctly uncool"
• Daniel for "Wait! Let me walk you back - I want to finish telling you about how nobody's figured out a syntactical explanation for where English gets its past tense from in did-sentences!"
• answering emails from a lot of people I love
• having no ingredients for pot pie filling other than cabbages and potatoes, which resulted in Irish Famine Pot Pie
• this awful, perfect punk rock cover of Usher's "Love In This Club" and these two covers of Miley Cyrus's "Party in the USA"

And these are February's Lookers, beginning with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, times three, and don't even pretend you don't want to be Claudia Schiffer:

[via damndamnfine, Fashion Gone Rogue]

An uncomfortably, gloriously close closeup of James Franco's beautiful face:

[via]

And the babyfaced piece of borderline jailbait gorgeous named Francisco Lachowski:

(Watch/listen at 3:45, because oh my God his voice does not match his babyface.)

I DIE.

I DIE AGAIN.

Oh hey is this picture made for me or what?

[via The Fashion Spot]

UNF. February, you have slain me.

calling women everywhere

If you don't have one of these, GET ONE. This is the most flattering affordable swimsuit ever created. This is your homework assignment. Get cracking.

Above, Solid Boy Short One-Piece, $39.50 at delias

women, fire, and dangerous things

Just doin' some required reading for my cognitive science class. I thought the pink cover was visually appropriate.

White thermal: Old Navy. Pink v-neck sweater: Target. Teal fake pashmina: Chinatown, gift. Skinny jeans: Levi's 518. Canvas sneakers: Harajuku Lovers.

The Clog Debate

Ever since I saw the girls clomping down the runway at Chanel's Spring 2010 show, I thought... Hmmm. Really? I've never liked clogs as there's nothing sexy about them and they are technically frumpy.

I remember even proclaiming that you would NEVER catch me in a pair of clogs. No matter who said they were cool!

Then I saw Miu Miu's clog...
Cute...ish. Still not sold.

But then these babies, also Miu Miu-

Kinda love them. Maybe because they're not opened up? I think they're really effin cool, though clearly too heavy for Spring.

This month's cover of British Vogue has Alexa Chung wearing clogs (Chanel I think) that she looks pretty great in. Then again, I personally think she looks great in most things.

So I've decided to go try some on tomorrow and see if I can get into it. This looks like a Spring trend that I will either have to pass on or try out in a cheaper way.

This one by Steve Madden seems OK and basic for a trial pair.

And of course, this beauty by Jessica Simpson that I should have bought before it sold out everywhere. Not a clog but clog-ish.

What do you all think? To clog or not to clog?? Will YOU be braving this trend or leaving it to the pros?